Collected Poems 1943-2004
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“Yes, death is far less dire to contemplate Than a forced marriage to an unloved mate”
Source: The School for Husbands
“Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.”
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
Source: Poems of Richard Wilbur
“Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia.”
Source: Conversations with Richard Wilbur
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”
Source: Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences
“Odd that a thing is most itself when likened”
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
“Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.”
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
“Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.”
“Step off assuredly into the blank of your mind. Something will come to you.”
Source: Conversations with Richard Wilbur
“All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know”
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
Source: Poems of Richard Wilbur
“What's lightly hid is deepest understood.”
Source: Poems of Richard Wilbur
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004
“Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.”
Source: Poems of Richard Wilbur
“The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.”
Source: Collected Poems, 1943-2004
Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004